Self Hosting on your Home Server - Cloudflare + Nginx Proxy Manager - Easy SSL Setup

Once you have your fresh new home server setup you'll definitely want to host some cool stuff. Let's make sure you're hosting it the safe way...and luckily its also the easy way.
Cloudflare - www.cloudflare.com/
Nginx Proxy Manager - nginxproxymanager.com/
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0:00 Intro
0:52 Self Hosting
1:28 Prerequisites
2:55 What you need a reverse proxy
4:06 Setup with Docker
6:16 Open ports
7:43 Cloudflare
10:32 Nginx Setup
12:41 Cloudflare SSL/TLS
14:13 IT WORKS
14:38 Conclusion

[@seankingsland]

Bro had me from the jump. "You finally finished your website after countless months of Red Bull" A few moments later..."Hello, World." 🤣😂😂😂

[@RaidOwl]

Totally not speaking from my personal experiences there…lol

[@jyt5249]

Ok - now I don’t feel so embarrassed knowing I wasn’t the only one who had that as their first webpage!! 😎

[@comosaycomosah]

lmao same i was all in from the capri sun hanging in the mouth

[@michaeltian]

bro got me at the "control freak" and "cheaper than Mr. Krabs" 😭😭

[@JavierChaparroM]

Thank you! I saw tutorials on doing this a lot of times and this one has been the only one that has worked as far!

[@abetechtips]

I tried watching a few videos but this one by far is the most straight forward and well explained. Thank you for your well made videos!

[@mitchellstl]

Thank you for the thorough explanation & step by step. Even 2 years later, this video is still helping others (like myself!). Appreciate the tutorial!

[@pringl3s]

Perfect video, by far the best I have found! I'm having a lot of fun with my homelab thanks to great teachers like you. Greetings from the Netherlands!

[@v0x3lc0d3]

Dude, you just absolutely broke me out of my confusion over this entire process. THANK YOU!!!

[@kyledickinson311]

This is, by far, the best tutorial I've seen on the topic. Thank you!

[@3sixtymining]

I watched a bunch of videos on how to this and your video was the most thorough and simplest to follow. Thanks!

[@yungjerky]

I have to add to the grateful choir. Took me weeks of messing around with TrueNAS, Jellyfin, Nginx, Traefik, my router, Cloudflare... going in circles trying to set it up. Seems like everyone has a different way of going about proxy servers. After watching your video I FINALLY managed to securely open up a single port to the Internet for me to access Jellyfin remotely. Only thing I had to work out was doing the Portainer install but that was quite straightforward. THANK YOU for this detailed how-to!

[@72bonzo]

DUDE. I have been going 'round and 'round with this. I've watched about half a dozen videos, studied at least the same number of articles, and this is the first time I've got it working. And it was so easy. I was WAY over complicating this. At least I know a lot more about apache/cloudflare/docker/nginx than I'd ever thought I'd know. Thanks for allowing me to get back to having fun in the homelab again. Keep up the good work!!

[@matthewballard7219]

im in the homelab nightmare stage xD

[@Than3Dane]

Same here xD Still stuck at the end, currently trying to assign nat ports to continue following up on this guide.. Got a wordpress installation on a local webserver using Nginx, which I've already setup to be powered by cloudflare, got all the ssl certs and stuff completed, just need to get around the dns I guess xD Thank god for people like Chuck !

[@crowlsyong]

​@@Than3Dane I've been stuck with nginx on a 403 error. Got the initial nginx page, but when i directed it to the index file, it 403s now. XD Love this video tho, I have made more progress each time I sit down on this project.

[@idanzehavi7883]

Literally same, this video saved me so much time

[@lololololololololl]

Same for me, i've been watching these videos for a week and tinkering around but with no luck, until this video!

[@thomaswhipple2867]

You are… the wind beneath my wings! Thank you so much for this video. Been trying to figure this out for a while now and you made it all make sense.

[@msoltanftw]

I seriously felt that cut to screaming into the pillow. That was my experience trying to get this all set up before I found your video, it helped a ton!

[@dawnS33ker]

I had watched a lot of videos on this subject, but this is the one that cleared up things for me. Thank you for this.. Just awesome!!!

[@MikeCabralcapsyweb]

thank you, ive been trying to set my server for about a week, tried other tutorials, with this one i was able to do what i wanted. thumbs up!!!!

[@stigofdump100]

I have been struggling with this for days and finally I have been able to get it sorted. thank you soo much for your content

[@malachiHburton]

Been through multiple videos on how to get this setup, with no success until this tutorial. Great tutorial, thanks for helping me to get this working!

[@RaidOwl]

I was in the same boat...which is why I made it haha. Glad it helped you out!

[@heyitsnaimtv]

Great video! You covered pretty much everything. From port forwarding to SSL. Thank you!

[@MuratDemir26]

First of all, thank you for the video. You have put together a topic that I have been researching for a while, , very well. I think a top of this can be done using Cloudflare Tunnel. Thus, it becomes appealing to those using CGNAT or Dynamic IP addresses. Thanks again, have a nice day ^_^

[@sanderdevries7718]

Thanks for explaining this in detail! My server has been running Nginx Proxy Manager for 3 ish years but recently it stopped working and I was struggling with the reinstallation process. This helped me re-do my SSL setup!

[@guitarguy6561]

Thanks bud. Most tutorials dont cover the A record setup via cloudflare and is working first time. Cheers!

[@whiskeymuscles4053]

Thank you so much for this video! I was losing my mind trying to get NPM + Certbot to work in unraid. Setting my domains up in Cloudflare was the ticket. Thanks again!

[@JeffEngle_rvbuiltfortwo]

PERFECT. just what I was looking for. Trying it out on TrueNAS scale tomorrow. Thank you!

[@SelfHostedToast]

Amazing video! Great coverage of all steps involved. This fixed EVERYTHING!

[@willpowell1651]

Incredibly well explained. So efficient and easy. Thank you!!

[@charleskorndorffer]

Easily the most clear and enjoyable explanation of this

[@alexnaster8357]

Awesome. Been spun around in circles over this. Ended up have an obtuse issue with the add-on in home assistant. Wipe the DB, reinstalled...started with wildcard cert with DNS challenge first before adding proxy hosts...works like a champ

[@alexnaster8357]

A year later lost my conf could not recall how to do this. Thanks again.

[@Joshawa]

This video was so helpful, I subscribed just for how useful it was and how easy to understand you made it. Thank you!

[@adonisrn]

13:48 I think the most important tip. This is how the redirects worked on my server. Great tutorial, thx.

[@evtyler]

Fantastic tutorial! Your teaching style is perfect.

[@Nallieheai]

Thank you so much for the video, your channel has been a huge help for me getting into self hosting and developing my tiny homelab! Which hopefully will grow with time! 😆

[@KhelyH]

man, this is so far the most perfect solution out there to host nextcloud with https! subscribed! thank you man!

[@grahammccann8554]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It is easy to follow and entertaining.

[@unkreativnet]

Thanks man. I am just starting my homelab and your video answered so many questions!

[@matthewballard7219]

I love you humor man and your tutorials are next to none!

[@chrislanejones]

his is great, I knew about everything you referenced just didn't know what steps to take. I subscribed!

[@idanzehavi7883]

This video finally got everything working!!!!! thank you sooo much!!! saved me a ton of time and stress!!!

[@maciofacio364]

WOW, thanks man for this simple tutorial, damn I was trying to do this for a few days now, finally i got your video. Thank you for your work, it was so simple to setup. Thank you once again and regards.

[@octaviomontt89]

Thank you so much for the easy tutorial. Worked super well!!

[@258JUAN]

Amazing. This got me where I wanted. Goal: Running proxmox server with an ubuntu server VM (wondering if I should just run ubuntu server, but guess I can learn proxmox and ubuntu together). Have some docker containers running in the ubuntu server and wanted to get them on the entire internet. This get you there! Feels good.

[@gannonbest7251]

3 days and hours of pain and finally here we are with a working proxy

[@grlucas]

Super helpful. Thanks very much! Even though my ISP blocks port 80 (we can't be hosting any web sites now, right?), this worked perfectly. Much appreciated!

[@Gragorg]

Great video this solved my exact problem I had. This was very well explained. Thanks!

[@7073shea]

Thanks owl! Perfect timing too as one of the use cases for my server is going to be hosting my website

[@RaidOwl]

You're welcome, Sean! Hope this guide works for ya.

[@leggettc18]

Great Video, but worth mentioning that some residential ISPs will block traffic on port 80, which can make getting a Let’s Encrypt cert difficult. You can still get around it by hosting the Nginx proxy in the cloud and having it proxy to other ports on your home network.

[@FranciscoMarcosMilhomemAbreu]

Exactly! I faced this issue too. What do you say about duckdns?

[@charlesrodriguez3657]

Cloudflared ( Argo Tunnels) ,or Ngrok. I've also heard of Inlets, but I haven't been able to test it. They're like a wormhole. The visitors hit the edge (Cloudflare servers) and see your site without having to open ports.

[@NordplayTM]

Namesheap Dynamic dns client

[@Carmtech974]

This is where cloudflare comes in!

[@josephgutierrez8430]

Fantastic video! Thank you so much! The only thing I did on my config was use Zero Trust Tunneling from Cloud Flare instead of opening ports on my router. (I'm just paranoid. I'm sure this is safe, too. Just you know, overkill is underrated. ) Also Fun fact, this was the only way I could find that wasn't a giant pain to get an SSL secured Wordpress install self hosted. Great work! Thank you again so much. Fantastic content. I have been binging all your stuff!

[@RaidOwl]

Heck yeah man, glad you got it working!

[@Michael-rq8zj]

May I ask how you did this using cloudflare tunneling?

[@josephgutierrez8430]

@Michael-rq8zj Hey man, sure so RaidOwl actually has a video on this. I used this to do most of it. There was some wordpress specific stuff that I had to do. If you're specifically looking into that I can look for my notes. LMK. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqPaoH6FbLGAsM0

[@djsnakez]

This really made my day. Thank you!

[@annony1annony191]

props to you Raid Owl you provided an excellent tutorial and I was able to get my system running using it have a great day. :)

[@thebatman212324]

This just saved me a ton of reading! Thank you!

[@abdulnaveed4984]

Thank you so much , so easy explanation, well explained

[@NovaCayn]

You are awesome! This was a great tutorial. Keep it up :)

[@Marco-rj3wv]

This video is a god send. Keep up with the great content

[@inoursh]

you got a like just because of the introduction, that was amazing :D

[@MrDoldora]

Yes, it helped a lot! Thank you for the easy explainations!!!!

[@JoelFabiani]

You're the best man! Finally got it working.

[@RaidOwl]

Heck yeah man!

[@Kris-fm8ln]

The take a breath followed by screaming into a pillow made me laugh way too hard. Great video.

[@DavidCastillaGil]

You got me when you said... "show it off to all your friends and yeah" here's my friend RabbitMQ... Totally worth a new sub! Thanks for the video, great work summarizing what could usually be a complex topic and still making it fun.

[@RaidOwl]

Haha he’s a great listener

[@DavidCastillaGil]

@@RaidOwl indeed he is! But he's also a great broker, be careful who he exchanges your data with, he might sell your keys quicker than my ex did! lol

[@burakturksever]

The Cloudflare DNS API solved all the issues with my setup, thanks

[@substandard649]

Great explanation, I found this really useful. Thanks

[@brandonhill9356]

absolutely wonderful! thank you!

[@jedi4z]

Amazing! thanks for sharing this 🙌🏽

[@DunOpondo]

This is awesome, now I can try to host nextcloud at home and access it from anywhere 😉

[@StanyCarteny]

Great works!!!! sei bravissimo, è un piacere seguirti!!!

[@ArchdruidViridian]

Thanks very much friend! Great guide.

[@trishensookraj6193]

Incredible explanation. Thanks

[@RobPClayton]

Awesome video, finally got this working thanks to this :) thank you!

[@RaidOwl]

Glad to hear it!

[@julianorosario3040]

Man this was so easy thank you

[@mikePOZnoy]

The breather scene killed me 😆

[@goarus]

Thanks for the video. Could you make some more videos about cloudflare settings? There are too many of them.

[@vince6621]

Your channel is seriously underrated bro. Awesome video! How would you implement dynamic DNS with this setup?

[@RaidOwl]

There are plenty of different ways but I use the DDNS service built into my firewall (pfSense).

[@vince6621]

@@RaidOwl nice! I have a netgate 1100 so I'll have to check your vids later to see if you have a way to do that as well

[@SerhatCakmakoglu]

Simply amazing

[@timothyrobertson4451]

Great, easy to follow video. Do you have a static ip? Would this work on a dynamic ip?

[@froalexandre]

Thanks for this video, the content quality is really great! I was using nginx on my new homeserver but the UI of nginx proxy manager feels so good... I see you are using portainer for your containers, as my home server is running proxmox and Truenas Scale, do you recommend setting up a new VM with portainer or use the k3s built in Truenas?

[@RaidOwl]

k3s seems a little overkill for a single system so I'd personally just go with Docker/Portainer...but if it's working for you then that's all that matters haha

[@froalexandre]

@@RaidOwl It's just what's bundled with truenas scale but I guess I really should isolate more my services haha thanks again!

[@PedroMartinez9]

Amazing explanation! thanks

[@gipanze1]

subscribed in 30 seconds this guy is hilarious

[@aljubori]

Great and perfect vedio , you helped too much to work with... nice.... keep forword man

[@patongzz1]

Thank it work !! very useful

[@ChapuzasconRober]

It looks awesome! Thank you for this and other so good videos. I have been enjoying a lot last two weeks. I wanted to ask you: For this solution a static IP from your ISP is needed, right?

[@Klej0aka0Klej]

Yes it is, there is cloudflare tunnel that makes it much easier to setup if you got no public ip like me :)

[@ChapuzasconRober]

@@Klej0aka0Klej ey! Thanks for the answer. Right now I was trying ddclient without success. Could you give me a link? :)))

[@Klej0aka0Klej]

@@ChapuzasconRober I believe you can find it yourself after writing `cloudflare tunnel`. Setup is pretty easy. :)

[@ChapuzasconRober]

@@Klej0aka0Klej Thank you very much! I will try it later!

[@ledinhanhtan]

Thanks man!!

[@michaelcid]

Thnx! This was really helpful :-)

[@alel1531]

First of all, thank you. I just wanted to ask. I use the zero trust tunnel, where clearly there is no need to open any ports on the router. From your experience, in all sincerity, what do you think is the best solution between video and one (or more) zero trust tunnels? I really thank you. Videos always at the top! 🤙

[@rzvendramini]

Man, great video. My server is behind a CGNAT. I am using Cloudflare tunnels but I would like to try another configuration using A VPS, wireguard and Nginx Proxy Manager. I configured an instance on Vultr using Wg-easy. The VPN is working great, but I still do not figure how to make the Nginx Proxy Manager work in this scenario. Do you have a tip? Again, nice work, man!

[@reg_legs]

This was perfect. Also, drinking out of cups.

[@daz7748]

Great tutorial, thank you :)

[@sillycoda1084]

you're an inspiration to us all.. and I don't mean just the god tier memes you have in your videos, the networking part too :D Keep up the great work

[@sillycoda1084]

i really hope the balloon hands is referring to pink floyd's comfortably numb?

[@adelinopereira1103]

great content, thanks for sharing

[@markjones2349]

LMAO at you screaming into your pillow. That was great. :)

[@joliebrandc]

Thanks amazing video!! About the architecture for apps with a db this solution works? persistams, and this is for https tcp?

[@DarthDweeb]

This is basically how I set up my website. It's served from a raspberry pi and instead of running nginx I ran certbot on the pi. I needed to stop proxying my ip for a minute for certbot to work but it works. I have the lowest power web server on earth. For a site that isn't maintained and no one goes to.

[@RaidOwl]

“For a site that ain’t man ganged and no one goes to” 😂

[@sakodv7137]

Excellent video.

[@samuelg3024]

Nice video. Do you have any suggestions or advice for the 100MB upload limit? I have a Synology NAS and cloudflare limits uploads to 100MB.

[@somedude5353]

This is great, thank you. How do you do you provide SSL certificates for local services that you don't want to expose to the world?

[@elmagico3488]

great video even 2 years ! my doubt is the ip in my home chance after someone days(not static ip) and this tutorial mean "set your public ip in cloudflare configuration....", so this is a problem if my home ip is not static ?

[@leesweets4110]

One of the whole points of using cloudflare is to circumvent the need to reconfigure your router. I dont have access to my router; its shared in a small community and controlled by one individual landlord. I was turned onto cloudflare as a means of tunneling through and allowing external connections to my computer, without having to set any port forwarding in the router. Hiding my IP from people was never my intention in using cloudflare

[@mziminski]

Great video!! I currently use Google domains with Dynamic DNS because I don’t have a static IP address. Is there a way to do this with dynamic DNS and use a CNAME instead?

[@jecolon98usa]

Thank You :)) - Great Video

[@ccrica09]

Great tutorial, specially the little nap lol. Unfortunately, it didn't worked for me as I'm using an ipv6 in cloudflare (AAAA) entry. Targetted directly in CF, the ip6 worked fine, but following exactly the setup here, does not work... error 521 mainly. Thanks anyway, your video is excellent :).

[@jamesfatula5824]

One biggest problem with using port 80 and 443 is isp provider blocks those on customers for homes and requires us to use business plan costs more .... So workaround is port forwarding in router to different ports it really aucks

[@twigcheeseball]

I always love your videos! I have one question though that I've been searching for the answer to. Is using a cloudflare proxy for DNS like this against their TOS for accessing my Plex server? I understand that using a tunnel is, but I'm trying to find another way to access my Plex server remotely (without a VPN as well, just so I know how). Thanks for all the great content!

[@RaidOwl]

Nope, using Cloudflare proxy with Plex is very common so you’re good!

[@Lamp512]

hey this is great! but it seems impossible to set up wordpress using NPM as your ssl provider, could you do a follow up on that?

[@PhilReynolds]

What do you do if your isp doesn’t supply static public up address?